Fine Dining in Barcelona: A Guide to the City’s 2015 Michelin-Starred Restaurants

The famed Michelin Guide released its 2015 list of Michelin-starred restaurants this past week.

As expected, Barcelona maintained its standing as the city with the most Michelin-starred restaurants in the country — 23 in all.

This year’s list remains the same as last year’s, save for one addition and one subtraction. Ferran Adria’s Japanese restaurant Pakta joined Barcelona’s group of 19 one-star restaurants, while 41 Degrees dropped off the list because the location is undergoing renovations.

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Lasarte is one of several world-renowned restaurants started by Basque chefs. Martin Berasategui opened Lasarte in 2006 within Hotel Condes. These days, chef de cuisine Paolo Casagrande runs the kitchen while manager Joan Carles Ibañez oversees operations.

According to Berasategui, “My dishes … are a symbiosis between the aromas and flavours of my home region and those that are typical of this region.”

ABaC, located in the ABaC Hotel in Barcelona’s Zona Alta, is the brainchild of 36-year-old Catalan chef Jordi Cruz. The avant-garde wizard won his first Michelin star at 24 years old, the youngest chef in Spain and the second youngest chef in the world to accomplish the feat.